Nissan Motor Company Ltd

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Nissan Motor Company Ltd is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nishi-ku, Yokohama. The company sells its cars under the Nissan, Infiniti, and Datsun brands with in-house performance tuning products labelled Nismo. The company traces its name to the Nissan zaibatsu, now called Nissan Group.


Climate Policy Rating: InfluenceMap  C-[1]
Nissan appears to broadly support strands of climate change regulation. However, CEO Carlos Ghosn was the President of ACEA in 2014 and 2015 when they opposed specific GHG emission standards within the EU, and was heavily involved in the automotive industry’s attempt to undermine emission testing reform.

Articles

  • Feb.04.2019: Nissan was offered secret state aid to cope with Brexit, minister concedes. Business secretary Greg Clark has been forced to admit the existence of a previously secret package of state aid to Nissan worth up to £80m had the carmaker gone ahead with plans to manufacture a new model X-Trail in Sunderland after Brexit. Yet, at the time the commitments were first made, Downing Street had said “there was no special deal for Nissan” and Clark refused six times to answer a question about what was on offer when interviewed on the BBC. Dan Sabbagh, Jasper Jolly, The Guardian.
  • Nov.19.2018: Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's arrest in Japan shocks auto industry. Carlos Ghosn, the chairman of Nissan and one of the world’s most powerful automotive executives, has been arrested by Japanese prosecutors in a move that sent shockwaves through the industry. The 64-year-old French-Brazilian is suspected of having understated his income on financial statements and was exposed by a whistleblower. Nissan said it will fire him this week as the company admitted it had left him in control for too long. Jasper Jolly, The Guardian.

References

  1. ^ The A-List of Climate Policy Engagement. Which global companies lead in strategic lobbying for the ambitions of Paris? Rankings measure how a corporation or trade association behaves towards 2°C aligned climate and energy policy. Influence Map, Apr.2018.